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* Stephen Tobias was COO at Norfolk Southern * Nominee brings rail experience to proxy slate * Pershing, led by Ackman, wants to replace CP's CEO * Shareholders to vote May 17 April 2 (Reuters) - Pershing Square Capital Management named a railroad veteran as its seventh nominee for Canadian Pacific Railway's board on Monday, heading off criticism that its proxy slate lacks experience in the sector. The new addition is Stephen Tobias, who worked at Norfolk Southern Corp for some 40 years, including as chief operating officer and vice chairman.

Oct 10 (Reuters) - Clothing retailer Wet Seal Inc named a Clinton Group nominee as chairman of its board, after replacing four of its board members with the activist investor's nominees last week. Lynn Davey, previously chairman and chief executive of Avalon Group Ltd, will replace Harold Kahn, who was among the board members who resigned following the Clinton Group's efforts to bring changes to the board. Wet Seal has been under pressure from the Clinton Group to turn around its business following a continuous decline in monthly same-store sales.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. health secretary, will appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee on May 8 for the first of two confirmation hearings, a committee official said on Monday. Burwell, who would replace outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius if confirmed by lawmakers, is also expected to testify later at a separate hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. But a date for those proceedings has not been set, a Democratic Senate aide said.

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, has been interviewed in connection with U.S. prosecutors' probes into unauthorized leaks of government secrets to the news media, documents released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday said. Written submissions from Brennan to the committee were posted on the panel's website. In them, Brennan confirmed that he had participated in voluntary interviews as part of probes into leaks concerning cyber attacks against Iran and a foiled bomb plot tied to Al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate.

(Adds comments from Daniel Day-Lewis, Helen Mirren, Jack Black, Anne Hathaway, Ang Lee, Adele) LOS ANGELES, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced nominations for the 2012 Golden Globe Awards on Thursday. Winners will be named at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Jan. 13. Following is a list of reactions from nominees, received by Reuters in statements via email or telephone. ** "I'm very grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for so generously acknowledging us in a year of such powerful films and performances.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Mark Kirk announced Friday he will not support the nomination of fellow Republican Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense, citing instances in which he believes Hagel has not been tough enough on Iran. Kirk, of Illinois, joining other GOP lawmakers who are opposing the nomination, made his announcement in a statement a day after Hagel's long, rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday he believes the Senate will confirm Hagel's nomination.

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday confirmed a White House nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In a break from partisan battles over judicial appointments, the Senate gave bipartisan support to Sri Srinivasan, 46, a political appointee in the Justice Department. The court is one level down from the Supreme Court and Srinivasan is viewed by some as a potential justice on the nation's highest court. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Doina Chiacu)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico thinks Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee for the next World Bank president, is the best candidate for the job, deputy finance minister Gerardo Rodriguez said on Wednesday. Korean-American health expert Kim is up against Nigerian Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala, who left a top post at the World Bank last year, and former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. "Mexico supports the candidacy of Dr. Kim," said Rodriguez in a emailed statement, adding the Mexican government would vote for him. (Reporting by Simon Gardner and Dave Graham)

As confirmation hearings opened for nominees to the new Cabinet, Communist Party members in parliament were shocked Friday to hear prospective ministers pledge publicly to return Poland to a market economy and to seek war reparations from the Soviet Union. In an outpouring of pledges for change, the Communist candidate for interior minister promised to abolish police departments that spy on priests and the political opposition, and the candidate for defense minister, also a Communist, said he had been asked to take politics out of the army, which has been controlled by Communists since World War II. The chief members of new Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's economic team-the first time non-Communists held the posts in four decades-wasted no time in pledging drastic cuts in government spending, immediate price deregulation and measures to smash the state economic monopoly by reprivatization, all measures they said would bring pain before relief.